The goal of this graphic design project was to choose an interesting editorial and complement it with illustrations that would make a story more vivid to the reader. The article that has caught my attention was about human efforts to harness one of greatest rivers on the planet, Mississippi River, and their devastating effects on environment and coastline of Louisiana State.        

   

This first, simple image is as intended, self explanatory. It depicts Bayou State overflown by Gulf of Mexico waters. It may seem like a dramatically exaggerated illustration, but as an article reads, Louisiana looses a football field's worth of land every hour and a half... Such reality calls for powerful emphasis on every single front.         

Group of illustrations below have to do with other interesting aspect of the story the article talks about.

The spotted fish is an Asian Carp and as the editorial describes it has totally dominated most of the Mississippi River after its introduction in nineteen-sixties as an algae control. The fish in very short term spread and altered thousands of years old ecosystem which with all its ramifications qualifies as a men made disaster.  

An abstract, serpent like image portrays Mississippi River where with all its perturbations, lobe cycles and human influence it appears to be broken up and distressed.    

Finally, on more humorous note, dark, but humorous nevertheless, the last image shows a French soldier from 1700 knees deep in the water. It was only when the water got so high in 1707, the French decided to abandon their posts in southern Louisiana during one of Mississippi's lobes.